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С 1890 по 1913 годы в Англии существовала любительская команда по крикету, в которой поиграли Редьярд Киплинг, Герберт Уэллс, Артур Конан Дойль, Пэлем Вудхауз, Джером Клапка Джером, Алан Милн и множество других литераторов. Основателем команды был автор «Питера Пэна» Джеймс Барри, выбравший для неё название «Allahakbarries». Барри ошибочно полагал, что фраза «Аллаху Акбар» переводится как «Небо поможет нам», хотя на самом деле она означает «Аллах — великий».

Allahakbarries was an amateur cricket team founded by author J. M. Barrie, and was active from 1890 to 1913. The team was named in the mistaken belief that Allah akbar meant Heaven help us in Arabic (rather than God is great).[1] Notable figures to have featured for the side included Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse,[2] G. K. Chesterton, Jerome K. Jerome, A. A. Milne, E. W. Hornung, A. E. W. Mason, Walter Raleigh, E. V. Lucas, Maurice Hewlett, Owen Seaman, Bernard Partridge, Augustine Birrell, Paul Du Chaillu, Henry Herbert La Thangue, George Cecil Ives, and George Llewelyn Davies, as well as the son of Alfred Tennyson.

Barrie wrote a 40 page book оn his team, Allahakbarries C.C., which was published privately in 1890 and in a revised version in 1899. It was reprinted in 1950 with a foreword by Donald Bradman [1] . These rare books are now highly sought by collectors.[3]

Barrie's enthusiasm for the game eclipsed his talent for it; asked to describe his bowling, he replied that after delivering the ball he would go and sit оn the turf at mid-off and wait for it to reach the other end which 'it sometimes did'. The team played for the love of the game, rather than the results it achieved, and Barrie was generous in his praise for his team mates and opposition alike. He praised оne team mate's performance by observing that 'You scored a good single in the first innings but were not so successful in the second' while he lauded the oppositions effort by pointing out how 'You ran up a fine total of 14, and very nearly won'. He instructed Bernard Partridge, an illustrator from Punch magazine who was afflicted with a lazy eye, to 'Keep your eye оn square leg' while bowling and told square-leg, 'when Partridge is bowling, keep your eye оn him.' He forbade his team to practise оn an opponents ground before a match because 'this can оnly give them confidence'. The book notes that his most calamitous performance was being clean bowled by the American actress Mary Anderson in the 1897 "test" against the village of Broadway, in the Midlands.

Peter Pan's First XI, a book оn the exploits of the Allahakbarries, was published in 2011

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